TorPark Browser Review
Think you’re really safe while online? Think again. Everytime you visit a website, ISPs, admins and nefarious marketers are tracking you. You leave a virtual cookie trail everywhere you go.

The next day, it hits: spam, viruses, trogans, worms. All courtesy of your high visibility.

Enter the solution: anonymizers. These programs mask your trail and encrypt your online presence so marketers will have a hard time trracking your surfing habits. They work, but they’re costly. Guardster and Anonymizer rank among the most popular but can be slow. The fees they charge aren’t friendly either.

How about a free solution?

Welcome to the TorPark Browser:

Here’s what fans say.

An international group of computer security experts and human rights workers has released an anonymous, fully portable web browser based on Mozilla Firefox.

The Torpark browser comes pre-configured and requires no installation. It runs off a USB memory stick, and claims to leave no tracks behind on the browser or computer.

Hacktivismo, the organisation behind the project, said that Torpark is a highly modified variant of Portable Firefox that uses The Onion Router (Tor) network to create an anonymous connection between the user and the websites being visited.

Typically, when a user logs onto the internet, a unique IP address is assigned to manage the computer’s identity. Each website the user visits can see and log the user’s IP address.

Hostile governments and data thieves can monitor this interaction to correlate activity and pinpoint a user’s identity.

But the Tor network causes the IP address seen by the website to change every few minutes to frustrate eavesdropping and mask the requesting source.

Furthermore, the data passing from the user’s computer into the Tor network is encrypted.

Therefore, the user’s ISP cannot see the information passing through the Torpark browser, such as the websites visited, or posts the user might have made to a forum. The ISP can only see an encrypted connection to the Tor network.

I downloaded it and found myself duly impressed. The software runs off a USB drive, allowing you privacy wherever you go. Even at the internet cafe.

Say goodbye to lurking spammers and marketers. You’ll be protected for life. Plus it’s free.

Downside? If you don’t mind slllooooow surfing then you’re good to go. Due to the rerouting of traffic, your DSL access behaves like a 56K connection.